Nathan Senner

@drgodwit.bsky.social

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Mass Audubon Bertrand Chair for Ornithology in Dept. Environmental Conservation at UMass Amherst. Fan of all things godwits. Oh, and other birds, and ecology, and evolution, and just cool science generally.

Whimbrel at shellrake roost in South Carolina. Photo by Andrew S. Johnson.
The growth rates of female godwit chicks peaked later than those of males, meaning that they peaked after local insect abundance had begun to decline.
Relationship between food availability and godwit chick movement.
Hudsonian Godwit chicks hatching. Photo by Shawn Billerman.
A male Hudsonian Godwit on a nest. Photo by Andrew S. Johnson.
Photo by Michael St John
Each line is the elevational profile of same beach transect in different years; the dots and Xs are plover and tern nests.